From PFI contracts that make hospitals three times as expensive as public funding would, to the bubble in the housing sector, from graduates’ average debt burdens of £44,000, to unpayable energy bills …debt affects all aspects of our lives.

Be it private, national or local government, debt is one of the neoliberal system’s most powerful tools to discipline us.

But together, we can overcome the shame attached and the idea that you need to be an expert to understand what is happening.

Together we can start building strategies for resistance.

As part of Occupy London’s New Putney Debates, Debt Resistance UK organised an evening of discussion to hear more, share stories on debt and explore possibilities for collective action.

 

Introducting DebtResistanceUK – Vica Rogers

 

Payday Loans – Carl Packman

 

Household Energy Debt – Clare Welton

 

Housing Debt – Mary Robertson

 

NHS Debt – Helen Mercer

 

Local Government Debt – Joel Benjamin

 

National Debt – Jonathan Stevenson

 

Student Debt – Fanny Malinen

 

Open discussion